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@article{marquis_intergenerational_2008,

title = {Intergenerational effects of climate generate cohort variation in lizard reproductive performance},

author = {Olivier Marquis and Manuel Massot and Jean-François Le Galliard},

url = {https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/07-1211.1},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1890/07-1211.1},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

journal = {Ecology},

volume = {89},

number = {9},

pages = {2575--2583},

abstract = {An evaluation of the link between climate and population dynamics requires 

understanding of climate effects both within and across generations. In ectothermic 

vertebrates, demographic responses to climate changes should crucially depend on balancing 

needs for heat and water. Here, we studied how temperature and rainfall regimes experienced 

before and during adulthood influenced reproductive performances (litter size, offspring size, 

and survival) in a natural population of the live-bearing common lizard, Lacerta vivipara, 

monitored continuously from 1989 to 2004. Rainfall regime, but not temperature, had both 

immediate and delayed effects on these reproductive performances. Rainfall during the first 

month of life was positively correlated with juvenile survival. Females experiencing more 

rainfall during gestation produced smaller neonates that showed greater survival when 

controlling for the positive effect of body size on survival. Furthermore, females that 

experienced heavier rainfall when in utero produced fewer but longer neonates during 

adulthood. These demographic effects of rainfall on adult reproductive traits may come from 

maternal effects of climate conditions andtextbackslashor from delayed effects of rainfall on the 

environment experienced early in life. Irrespective of the precise mechanism, however, this 

study provides evidence of intergenerational climate effects in natural populations of an 

ectothermic vertebrate.},

keywords = {climate change, intergenerational effect, life history, maternal effect, phenotypic plasticity, Zootoca vivipara},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}